Name | Value |
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NAME | XMS-SEQ-TRANSMIT |
X ACTION PRESENT | YES |
MENU TEXT | Sequential Media Queue Transmission |
UPPERCASE MENU TEXT | SEQUENTIAL MEDIA QUEUE TRANSMI |
PACKAGE | MAILMAN |
E ACTION PRESENT | YES |
EXIT ACTION | D CHECKOUT^XM |
ENTRY ACTION | D EN^XM |
ROUTINE | TAPEOUT^XMCB |
DESCRIPTION | This option allows the recording of a queue of messages onto sequential computer room. It will be three weeks until the system is reconnected to the network. You know that a sister installation 10 miles down the road is still on line. You must get your payroll information to Austin. The messages are ready to be sent (in the queue to FOC-AUSTIN.VA.GOV). Quick! Mount a tape. Use this procedure to 'transmit' the queue onto the tape. Have the tape delivered to your sister site (keeping it away from all magnetic fields -- those messages are no longer in the queue). At your sister site the tape is delivered. They mount it and read in the messages. The messages are queued up for FOC-AUSTIN.VA.GOV and delivered as though they were 'relayed' through this site. You could also have sent the tape media. The messages so recorded may be 'read' into another MailMan system. directly to FOC-AUSTIN.VA.GOV where they could have been received. The option 'Sequential Media Message Reception' is the converse process. This option has been developed specifically for emergency transmission of messages when the wide area network is not available. It can also be used for archiving. Say a bulldozer knocked out your T1 line to the WAN in front of your |
CREATOR | ADAM,ADAM |
TYPE | run routine |